Edwin Scrymgeour Collection Box 2

• Reference:GB 615 ES/2
• Dates of Creation:1842 - 1932
• Physical Description:
  1 box

• Scope and Content

  Box contains considerable correspondence concerning Edwin Scrymgeour (E.S.)'s engagements throughout England and Wales, mostly in mid 1920s, and numerous letters, c. 1932, concerning E.S.'s decision to resign from the Scottish Prohibition Party and his subsequent negotiations with the Party. There are also personal appeals to E.S. for assistance and financial help, c. 1925

  Papers also include:

  Ward Road Methodist Church, Dundee: list of members of H. M. Forces, Oct 1940; list of members of Prayer Circle, June 1940

  Eloge upon Ann Spence of Kirriemuir – delivered at Dundee Watt Institution Mutual Improvement Class by Jas. Scrymgeour, 25 Jan 1842 (printed 1842)

  Print of article on The Sabbath Morning Free Breakfasts in Dundee by J. S., 16 Feb 1880

  Reminiscences of Professor Blaikie, by E.S. (rejected ms. prepared for People's Journal), 1932

  Letter from Henry Prain, Longforgan, concerning Mary Reid, wid., Hilltown – a beneficiary of Moncur Memorial Fund proposed by E.S., 23 Nov 1927

  Questions to parliamentary candidates in Dundee regarding Local Option, 1924

  Correspondence regarding campaign by Dundee Citizens' Council to Secure No – Licence, 1924

  Correspondence with officials of Treforest and District Branch of Prohibition Party, incl. ref. to Mrs Price who has come back from America extolling benefits of Prohibition on women there, 1924-5

  Letter from Flora Scrymgeour, West Newport, Fife: thinks E.S.'s Bill would have stood better chance with independent Scottish Parliament 25 April 1923

  Letters concerning E.S.'s introduction of Second Reading of Prohibition Bill in House of Commons, with approving references to situation in America, 1923

  Correspondence with W.D. Swan, Edinburgh, concerning rift with E.S., 1932

  Correspondence regarding petition to have certain matters concerning Lord Roberts Workshops in Dundee investigated, 1927

  Letter form E.S. in Edinburgh to his wife referring to his monotonous work there, "I am still toiling on here, & it is toiling, simply toiling for an existence…."; is being instructed by someone ten years younger than himself, wishes he was back in Dundee, is attending a Wesleyan preacher, 10 Jun 1902

  Personal letters, 1925-6

  Letters concerning E.S.'s resignation from Party, 1932

  Correspondence concerning attempt to get J. Feenay of Lochee into a Ministry of Pensions Hospital, 1 Feb 1932
  

• Access Information

  Publicly accessible.